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Re:The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy by bdamm on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @08:40PM (#16228102)
That’s outstanding. Have you solved anything with it?
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Re:The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy by currymj on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:12AM (#16229337)
only extremely basic stuff, nearly done with Deutsch-Josza now.

But again the alternatives are basically just representing your qubits as huge vectors and gates as huge matrices and just doing lots of multiplication, which is an extremely cumbersome and frustrating way to program and precludes any kind of abstraction, even for toy learning problems.

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